Water-wheel and elevator



(No Model.)

J. B. LOGKWOOD.

WATER WHEEL AND ELEVATOR.

No. 495,816. Patented Apr. 18. 1893.

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JOHN B. LOOKWOOD, OF HELMVILLE, MONTANA.

WATER-WHEEL AND ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,816, dated April18, 1893.

Application filed January 6, 1893. Serial No. 457,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. LooKWooD, of Helmville, in the county ofDeer Lodge and State of Montana, have invented a new and ImprovedWater-\Vheel and Elevator, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

My invention relates to improvements in water wheels and elevators; andthe object of my invention is to produce a very cheap and simpleapparatus which may be supported above any stream where there is aperceptible current, and with its lower part slightly submerged so thatit will be revolved by the current and will elevate and dischargesufficient water for irrigating purposes, or to supply power to runmachinery, the amount of water raised depending, of course, on the sizeof the wheel.

A further object of my invention is to construct and arrange the wheelin such a way that it may be easily adjusted to suit the differentheights of water so that it may be run most effectively. By the use ofthe wheel, which will be hereinafter described, irrigating water may beraised and the expense of building reservoirs and employing pumps bedone away with, and as it also raises water for power, it dispenses withthe necessity of building dams, &c.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part'ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a central vertical cross section of the apparatus embodyingmy invention; and Fig. 2 is a broken sectional plan 011 the line 22 inFig. 1.

The apparatus is provided with a suitable framework 10 which is adaptedto be supported on abutments 11 and 12 so as to extend horizontallyabove the surface of a stream, and the frame has at its ends verticaland parallel side pieces or posts 13 between which are held the bearingboxes 14, which have side flanges 15 overlapping the posts 13 to preventthe displacement of the boxes and which serve as bearings for thejournals of the main shaft 16 which extends longitudinally across theframe and horizontally above the water, and the boxes 14 are supportedby chains 17 connecting with windlasses 18 journaled between the posts13 near the top, each windlass having suitable operating levers 19 and aratchet wheel 20 and pawl 21 to prevent its turning in the wrongdirection.

The shaft 16 carries a cylinder 22 which has flanges 23 forming the endsof the wheel proper and formingthe sides of the buckets to behereinafter described. Arranged circumferentially on the cylinder aretangentially extending paddles 24 which are provided on one side withparallel guide strips 25 which align with the inner edges of the flanges23, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, and which serve to guide the water as itis delivered from the paddles to the sluice. Beneath each paddle andabutting against the same are plates 26 having reduced front edges 27which enable the water to pass easily over them into the buckets 28,which buckets are formed between the flanges 23 and beneath the paddles24 and plates 26.

On one side of the wheel and about opposite the center thereof, is asluice 29, which may be given any desired inclination and which issupported on a cross timber 30, this sluice being adapted to carry awaythe water raised by the wheel and deliver it at any desired point. WVhenthe wheel is to be used the boxes 14 are adjusted by means of thewindlasses 18 so that the lower portion of the wheel will dip into thewater, and the current striking the paddles 24 causes the wheel to berevolved, the wheel turning in the direction indicated by the arrow inFig. 1, and as the wheel revolves the buckets 28 are successively filledand raised on the back side of the wheel, and as they pass over thecenter at the top, the water is discharged from them and passes fromeach bucket over the paddle 24 beneath and out between the guide strips25 into the sluice 29. In this way a constant stream of water. is madeto run into the sluice.

It will be noticed that the paddles extend outward beyond the rim of thewheel, thus giving the wheel great power, and this may be still furtherincreased by widening or lengthening the paddles.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. An improved water wheel and elevator, havingtangential paddles around its periphery, buckets arranged between thepaddles, guide strips produced upon the paddles and adapted to alignwith the sides of the buckets, and a sluice to receive the waterdischarged from the buckets, substantially as described.

2. A Water wheel and elevator, comprising a supporting frame, avertically adjustable shaft journaled in the frame, windlasses journaledin the frame and operatively connected with the shaft to adjust thesame, and a wheel carried by the shaft, the wheel having peripheraltangential paddles, buckets arranged between the paddles, and guidestrips secured to the paddles and aligning with the sides of thebuckets, substantially as described.

3. An improved water wheel and elevator, comprising a cylinder securedto a shaft and provided with end flanges, tangential paddles projectingfrom the cylinder to a point beyond the periphery of the flanges, crossplates extending from flange to flange and abutting with a portion ofthe paddles so as to form buckets between the paddles, and guide stripssecured to the paddles and aligning with the sides of the buckets,substantially as described.

JOHN B. LOOKWOOD. Witnesses: 1

HENRY G. SANDFORD, DANIEL W. SPRANKEL.

